Story+2007-10-09+East+Rutherford,+NJ

“New Jersey (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers)...”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Radio Nowhere”**

“Good evening (crowd cheers) fellow New Jerseyans, neighbors and friends (crowd cheers) here´s a, uh, here´s the title song from my new record…and, uh…it´s about how we live in this Orwellian moment when anything that´s true can be made to seem like a lie and things that are lies can be made to seem true so it´s really not about magic, it´s about tricks…”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Magic”**

“Are you with me? (crowd cheers) alright…this song´s called ´Livin´ In The Future´...but it´s about what´s happening now... that´s right…about how along with all the things we love about America...cheeseburgers…Max´s Hot Dogs at the Jersey Shore (crowd cheers) the Bill of Rights (crowd cheers) just under Max´s Hot Dogs at the Jersey Shore, that´s right…Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) how along with all the things that we love about America, we´ve had to add to the American picture… rendition, illegal wiretapping, no right to Habeas Corpus, rolling-back of our civil liberties, attack on the Constitution...these are things that aren´t just un-American, they´re anti-American (crowd cheers) now, this about things that shouldn´t be happening here but are happening here right now…and so we plan to do something about it right now (crowd cheers) we plan to sing about it…it´s a start…ready, Max?...”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Livin´ In The Future”**

“Alright, darling…come back to it…come back to it…and in the meantime, I´ll come to it right after this one…”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Darkness on the Edge of Town”**

“(?)…oh yeah…thank you so much (crowd cheers) oh yeah…it´s nice to be home (crowd cheers) thanks for the welcome…oh, we will be back (crowd cheers) alright…we also have our long-time friends here from the Community Foodbank of New Jersey tonight, oh yeah, for over 30 years Community Foodbank´s, they were started at a back of a station wagon, the Community Foodbank of New Jersey today, they serve about half a million of our struggling citizens and, uh, they can use your help, on your way out, if you can stop and check them out, they can use your time and your support (crowd cheers) so this is for Kathleen…oh, and we´ll do this for Jen, wishing her happy birthday…”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“Thank you, thank you, thank you…alright…we´re going into the vault…”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Thundercrack”**

“Come on, Roy…(?)…everybody help the Professor…one, two (crowd: “One, two, three, four”) not good enough, one, two (crowd: “One, two, three, four”)…” [there was a technical problem with Roy´s keyboard all through the night, which messed up the beginning of “Dancing in the Dark”]
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “Dancing in the Dark”**

“We thank you for coming out tonight, thank you, New Jersey (crowd cheers)… (…) Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) Patti Scialfa ...Steve Van Zandt…Soozie Tyrell…Garry Tallent…the Mighty Max Weinberg…Professor Roy Bittan…Dan Federici…Nils Lofgren… Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) New Jersey, you´ve just witnessed the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, body-shaking, booty-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)…”
 * 09.10.07 East Rutherford, NJ, intro to “American Land”**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//